著者

藤原 孝章 FUJIWARA Takaaki

出版者

京都

雑誌

総合文化研究所紀要 = Bulletin of The Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts (ISSN:09100105)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.23, pp.81-96, 2006-03-31

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The contents of this research consist of two parts: identifying the significance of current issues studies through the analysis of 'Social Studies in Japan in the early years after the Second World War.' and N.I.E; Newspapers in Education; and clarifying the strategy of developing learning units in social studies in order to improve the lesson plans for current issues studies. Current issues are 'the controversial issues in our society and the world'. Therefore the aims of learning current issues are to make students become involved in their society and to have them examine consider the values of a democratic society by themselves. Also I present the principles of a learning methodology for social studies related to a democratic society, and then, I apply them to the analysis of learning units for current issues in recent years, and propose an improved design for them.